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Hackers attack City of Covington computer systems

Posted on March 12, 2021 by Dissent

It looks like the City of Covington, Louisiana was hit with a ransomware attack. Radio.com has the report. The city is using Facebook to post updates. h/t, @Chum1ng0

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Former Roswell Park nurse pleads guilty to tampering with a consumer product

Posted on March 12, 2021 by Dissent

Articles on breaches involving protected health information (PHI) often raise the specter of what could happen if a patient’s records were misused and the patient’s healthcare suffered as a result.  Here’s a case where it reportedly happened.  This case also raises some questions about access controls and the value of audits and follow-up on audits….

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Criminals arrested after trusting encrypted chat app cracked by police

Posted on March 12, 2021 by Dissent

Graham Cluley reports: Police in the Netherlands and Belgium have made hundreds of raids, and arrested at least 80 people, after cracking into an encrypted phone network used by organised criminals. In a press release, Europol said that crime-fighting authorities in France, Belgium and the Netherlands had not only arrested a large number of suspected criminals,…

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Ransomware now attacks Microsoft Exchange servers with ProxyLogon exploits

Posted on March 12, 2021 by Dissent

Lawrence Abrams reports: Threat actors are now installing a new ransomware called ‘DEARCRY’ after hacking into Microsoft Exchange servers using the recently disclosed ProxyLogon vulnerabilities. Since Microsoft revealed earlier this month that threat actors were compromising Microsoft Exchange servers using new zero-day ProxyLogon vulnerabilities, a significant concern has been when threat actors would use it to…

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Hackers Rushed in as Microsoft Raced to Avert Mass Cyber-Attack

Posted on March 12, 2021 by Dissent

Kartikay Mehrotra and Alyza Sebenius report that the timing of the attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange right before Microsoft could push patches out has Microsoft considering whether there was some leak that alerted the hackers: Microsoft is now investigating the possibility of a leak that may have triggered these mass Exchange compromises ahead of…

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Overseas Service Corporation notification of a breach

Posted on March 12, 2021 by Dissent

Another report we may not see on HHS’s public breach tool but that involves health information. This reads like it is a notification to employees based on the types of data involved, but it doesn’t actually say who the breach impacted. Overseas Service Corporation (“OSC”) announced today a phishing email incident that involved a small…

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